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A prominent Pakistani cleric says Saudi Arabia is behind increasing terrorist attacks in the South Asian country.   Sayyed Shafaqat Hussein Shirazi, the deputy secretary general of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, which is the largest Shia political organization in Pakistan, made the remarks during an interview with Press TV on Thursday.   …

Two prominent American university professors say in the year 2014 Iran will challenge the US hegemony in the Middle East and the world. “The Islamic Republic aims to replace American hegemony with a more multi-polar distribution of power and influence,” Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote in an article. …

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday that his country’s nuclear technology is non-negotiable and US officials statements about Iranian nuclear facilities are invalid. “Iran’s nuclear talks are a reality and US officials should review this reality once more,” said the minister while speaking in a joint press conference …

The Australian government has confiscated passports in an effort to prevent attacks by returning fighters. With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters. But in a country more than 14,000 kilometres from the …

Every year Iranians mark anniversary of their Islamic revolution from February 1 to 11, as the “Decade of Fajr.” February 1, 1979 was the date when late Iranian charismatic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in Paris to Tehran, to a greeting by several million Iranians. Source: Al-Alam

Top-secret documentation collected by Pakistani field officers gives detailed information on 330 US drone strikes that have occurred in Pakistan since 2006. The CIA-run program is estimated to have killed 2,371 people. From solitary individuals riding on horseback to mountain hideouts crammed with people, the CIA drone program has had …

An Islamic organisations in the UK has slammed a website that publishes cartoons featuring Prophet Mohamed and Jesus. The website, Jesus and Mo, features a weekly comic strip in which the two prophets debate and joke about the central tenets of Islam and Christianity. The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) …

A major Canadian Muslim group is demanding an apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his chief spokesman for a comment it says linked the organization to a terrorist group. The National Council of Canadian Muslims has filed a notice of libel in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that …

When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was being bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness, he decided to show solidarity and shave his own hair. In no time, his entire class shaved their heads and the bullying stopped. Now, Mohammadian, who …

A Spanish member of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group fighting in Syria has fled the Arab country after refusing to do suicide mission. According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the 28-year-old Spanish national, identified as Abdelwahid Sadik Mohamed, was arrested at Malaga–Costa del Sol Airport on January 5 when he …